Nonsense in the Chaos

There are moments when the path beneath your feet stops being metaphor and becomes instruction. This week’s episode traces the unseen threads that have been quietly, persistently guiding me... from pilgrimage roads to the shores of Sark, and deeper still into the valley we now call home. What once felt like a series of choices is revealing itself as something far more intentional — a conversation...

In this week’s episode I’m chatting with the incredible creatrix that is Chris Park. Chris lives on an organic farm in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire. His work is wide and varied, from arts and craft, ancient technologies, experimental archaeology and educational projects, to eco-building, professional storytelling, folk music and raising the awareness of the heritage of beekeeping. He i...

It might seem counterintuitive, but this moment in time is such an incredible opportunity to be the best version of yourself and to do heroic things. Be the person who hid the family in your attic. Be the person who smuggled people through the checkpoint in the car. Be the person who kept squirrelling food away and who shared your last bit of bread. Be that person. Be the person that people are go...

This week I’m in conversation with Claire Cole, who runs The Centre in Guernsey, where she and her horses hold deeply intuitive shamanic healing sessions. In her work the horses are not simply present... they are active participants in the process, sensing energy, responding to what is unspoken, and helping guide people gently back towards themselves. There is something profoundly moving about wat...

Nonsense in the Chaos is back! It feels so good to be back behind the microphone. I’ve missed you all. This week I discuss how I can feel the old stories cracking. Institutions are wobbling, certainty is dissolving, and the world feels increasingly unreal. The question becomes: how do we live truthfully inside the chaos? I’ll explore power, myth, creativity, spirituality, and the courage to think...

The final episode of Nonsense in the Chaos for Season Two is a pause at the threshold. As Yule tide gathers us inward, this week’s episode explores the numerology of the coming year: a universal ten, the number of the radiant body, the moment in the alchemical process when lead is turned into gold. This is a conversation about community, about scale, and about agency. When the bigger picture feels...

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This week’s podcast weaves together the quiet magic of legacy, continuity and the unseen threads that connect us. In It’s a Wonderful Life , George Bailey never becomes wealthy or achieves the grand future he imagined. Instead, he receives something far greater: perspective. He’s granted the rare gift of witnessing the impact of his existence—the threads tying him to every life he’s touched and th...

#66 Church of Burn; Jonathan Harris and the Ritual of Burning Money Episode #66 dives into the Church of Burn with Jonathan Harris, its Reverend and creator of a movement that treats money not as a master but as a material for ritual transformation. Is it art-magic, a cult, a new form of religion, or something stranger? The Church calls itself a gathering around a sacred act: the literal sacrifice...

What’s the treasure at the heart of your life right now, and what do you feel called to make in the coming year? Three things steadied my nerves this week. First was The Emerald episode ‘Carry That Weight: On Mythic Burdens and Cosmic Supports’, where Joshua speaks of the old comfort in believing something larger could hold the weight of the world for you. It stirred a deep memory of how light lif...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos we follow the thread from Somerset to Exeter to meet Fiona Williams, author of House of Broken Bricks and partner of Joe, the builder from episode #58. Joe grew up in Burrowbridge with his twin brother Jason, and it was clear from meeting them how deeply the Levels run in their bones. Fiona carries that same connection, and channels it onto the page with remarkab...

I’ve been having an absolute technical meltdown recently... computers freezing, files disappearing, batteries dying mid-sentence — all the classic signatures of Mercury Retrograde. It’s that trickster energy again, reminding me that control is an illusion and timing isn’t always mine to command. In this episode, I want to explore what happens when the universe presses pause — when the messages don...

I’m back home — the pilgrimage dust barely settled on my boots — and already I find myself arms-deep in scrubbing the pub toilets, as reality swoops in to claim me once more. The rhythm of Chronos time, that steady, ticking, relentless measure of the everyday, has returned in full force. After weeks of sacred wandering and timeless flow, I’m suddenly back in the hum of normal life, where the clock...

It’s the end of our eight-week Odyssey — a journey that has taken us across landscapes both outer and inner — and we are feeling all the feels. The road behind us is heavy with stories, laughter, tears, revelations, and quiet moments of grace. Now, as the dust settles beneath our boots, it’s time to pause, reflect, digest, and begin to integrate everything that has unfolded along the way. In this...

In this week’s episode of Nonsense in the Chaos , we’re walking with an open heart and a simple, shining question: What gives you hope? As we travel together along winding paths and through shifting weather, I ask each person who joins me on the walk to share what helps them keep faith in the world — what lights the way when things feel uncertain or heavy. Their answers are beautiful, tender, and...

This week’s episode turns inward, toward one of the deepest and most elusive companions on any journey — Peace. As we walk together through shifting weather and landscape, I pose a simple yet profound question to everyone who joins me on the path: If Peace were a living being, an entity you could meet face to face, what would you ask? What would you say? The answers unfold like poetry — honest, su...

This week we journey through sacred circles of land magic, ancient stones, and the guiding light of the moon. With the fiery Aries full moon rising on the horizon, I explore its energy and what it stirs within us — courage, initiation, and the call to act. I’m joined by my fellow pilgrim and creative soul, Francesca, as we reflect on how this potent lunar moment weaves with our ongoing paths of pi...

This week on Nonsense in the Chaos we move through the gentler landscape of Somerset, where the walking feels easier and the encounters kinder. After some heavy days earlier in the journey, this stretch offers welcome moments of connection with people who feel instantly familiar. Up until now a tough theme has kept re-surfacing: the unsettling rise of racism and fascism appearing in everyday conve...

History was made this week in the great Chagford Mum-Off! Our Strolling Mummers away team clashed with the Chagford Mummers on their home turf. They grabbed the win (a total fix – we were robbed blind, I tell thee!). Between bouts of theatrical skulduggery we stayed with Howard and his partner Terri – my soul sister – plus the ever-glorious Lottie the dog. Rainbows, laughter, and Devon’s red soil...

In this week’s episode, the four of us walking the full route share what the pilgrimage means to us and what we’re learning along the way. You’ll also meet two strikingly different characters – both pagans, yet seemingly from opposite ends of the spectrum. They cared for us, they’re our friends, and they’re kind and generous, yet I don’t agree with some of their views. You may even find parts of o...

I've had an absolute nightmare trying to pull this together whilst on the road. The phone software is temperamental, to put it mildly, so I've lost or corrupted several edits. Hence the late release date, but it's here now. And I've the hang of things now.  It has been an extremely soggy start to the pilgrimage, but we've also enjoyed days of sunshine and experienced incre...

This week we slip through time to the year 1536, the fateful year Queen Anne Boleyn was executed, as Kentwell Hall once again bursts into life with its magnificent Tudor re-creation. For decades, this extraordinary gathering has welcomed hundreds of history buffs to step into the shoes of ordinary folk and high-born gentry alike, and this year’s happenings were as rich and wild as ever. In this ep...

This episode is all about Boomtown 2025, and the story we wove there in the La Luna Coven. Boomtown’s theme for next year is Radical Redesign , but this year, we were already living it. We built a time machine, travelled with a crystal through past and future, and dreamt up a world where difference is celebrated, technology and nature work in harmony, and everyone thrives. I’ll be sharing what hap...

In this episode, I’m speaking from the heart about my fight for fairness and equality—not just in politics or policy, but in everyday life. I talk about what it means to stand up when it’s uncomfortable, to challenge systems that are built to exclude, and to keep showing up even when the odds feel stacked.  I also explore how easy it is to be blind to our own privilege, and how real change starts...

For this special 50th episode, I’m joined by the incredible Seed Sistas – two dear friends who have profoundly shaped my understanding of magic, health, vitality, and the deep, reciprocal relationship we can cultivate with the natural world. Forming friendships with wild plants has been a cornerstone of my pilgrimages. As I’ve walked across the UK, these living beings have offered me company, wisd...